Yuuga Yamashiro
Mrs. Evans
English 10
23 February 2013
Farewell to ManzanarBeginning with a foreword and a time line, Farewell to Manzanar contains an autobiographical memoir of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's wartime imprisonment at Manzanar, a Japanese-American internment camp. On Sunday, December 7, 1941, in Long Beach, California, the family — consisting of both parents, Jeanne's four brothers and five sisters, and Granny — are startled by news that Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. FBI agents arrest Jeanne's father, Ko, for allegedly supplying oil to Japanese submarines and imprison him at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, North Dakota. In February 1942, President Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066 ordering Japanese-Americans to evacuate their homes and take up residence in internment camps. The Wakatsuki’s, with Jeanne's brother Woody at the head, are transported to Owens Valley, California, home of 10,000 internees. The family, overcrowded and miserable in Block 16, endures unappetizing institutional food, dust storms, diarrhea, lack of privacy, foul toilets, and annoying, impersonal red tape. After Papa’s reunion with his family in September 1942, Papa escapes feelings of humiliation through the consumption of homemade rice wine and becomes an angry, bitter, drunken loner. Jeanne avoids family disorder by hiding under the bed, studying catechism, playing hopscotch, and learning ballet. In spring 1943, the family locates better accommodations at Block 28, where Papa develops optimism through cultivating pear trees. Jeanne enjoys normal school experiences, including participation in glee club and yearbook activities. Camp life grows difficult as a result of pro-Japanese riots and forced loyalty oaths. Many young men, including Woody, disagree with the older generation and sign up for the military as a means of proving their loyalty. Later, to prove his sense of manhood, Papa rejects leaving Manzanar in a bus and returns his clan two hundred and...

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The fear, hatred and racism directed toward Japanese Americans came out in different ways. A primary example was that Americans assumed the Nisei (people of Japanese descent who were born, raised and were living in the U.S.), Issei (Japanese who were born in Japan, but were living in the U.S.), and the enemy Japanese were all the same with respect to their loyalty for the U.S. Many saw no differences between these three groups. This is shown in the book when Mr. Wakatsuki (the father of author and main character Jeanne Wakatsuki) was interviewed by the Justice Department. The interview focused on a picture of Mr. Wakatsuki’s commercial fishing boat, which had two fifty-gallon drums attached. The Justice Department assumed he was using the drums to deliver oil to Japanese submarines off the coast...

...Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Plot Overview
I n the morning of december 7, 1941, Jeanne Wakatsuki says farewell to Papa’s sardine fleet at San Pedro Harbor in California. But soon the boats return, and news reaches the family that the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Papa burns his Japanese flag and identity papers but is arrested by the FBI. Mama moves the family to the Japanese ghetto on Terminal Island and then to Boyle Heights in Los Angeles. President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which he signs in February 1942, gives the military the authority to relocate potential threats to national security. Those of Japanese descent in America can only await their final destination: “their common sentiment is shikata ga nai” (“it cannot be helped”). One month later, the government orders the Wakatsukis to move to Manzanar Relocation Center in the desert 225 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
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Upon arriving in the camp, the Japanese Americans find cramped living conditions, badly prepared food, unfinished barracks, and swirling dust that blows in through every crack and knothole. There is not enough warm clothing to go around, many people fall ill from immunizations and poorly preserved food, and they must face the indignity of the nonpartitioned camp toilets, an insult that particularly affects Mama. The Wakatsukis stop eating together in the camp mess halls, and the family begins to...

...In the true story "Farewell to Manzanar" we learn of a young girl's life
as she grows up during World War II in a Japanese internment camp. Along with
her family and ten thousand other Japanese; we see how, as a child, these
conditions forced to shape and mold her life. This book does not directly place
blame or hatred onto those persons or conditions which had forced her to endure
hardship, but rather shows us through her eyes how these experiences have held
value she has been able to grow from.
Jeanne Wakatsuki was just a seven year old growing up in Ocean Park,
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with a large dining table which was located in an entirely non-Japanese
neighborhood. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was the
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rapidly aging grandmother and her nine brothers and sisters. Too young to
understand, Jeanne did...

...Farewell to Manzanar
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The life in the internment camp causes significant and influential effects on Papa mentally and physically. While the Wakatsuki family lives in Manzanar, Papa returns to Manzanar from North Dakota, where he was forced to work as an interpreter helping the Justice Department interview other Isseis. Papa has some physical changes in his appearance when he returns. He becomes thin and withered, has a broken right leg, and looks ten-year older. He used to be proud, but after he arrives at Manzanar from North Dakota, he becomes a bitter, outraged, and angry recluse. He exiles...

...﻿ELAH 1 Susana Mendoza
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In the memoir, Farewell to Manzanar, written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, Papa was born in Japan and he moved to America. While he was living in America the bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred. He was a fisherman who spent a lot of his time out at sea and he was accused of selling oil to Japan. He is sent to Manzanar and it is there where his true colors are shown. Papa will show with the little things he does, how he is traditional, demanding and very versatile.
From the very beginning, Papa shows us how is versatile by all the different jobs he has had in the past. Jeanne states that her father has had a lot of different jobs. “He had been a jack-of-all trade (Wakatsuki Houston 10). Jeanne states that her father has done a lot of different jobs. Also, Papa goes from job to job, all very different jobs. “When, I was born, he was farming near Inglewood. Later he started fishing, we moved to Ocean Park…” (Wakatsuki Houston 10). This shows us that Papa has had many different jobs and the he is good at doing many different tasks
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...Farewell to Manzanar: Essay Question #2
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...Peroid 6
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Farewell To Manzanar Analysis Essay
December 7th, 1941 was the day most Japanese-Americans lost all freedom and rights. In Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston’s World War II era novel, Farewell To Manzanar, The author emphasizes the bombing on Pearl Harbor and the life in an interment camp. The Pearl Harbor attack was devastating to everyone, not just Americans but the Japanese-American citizens who call this county home too. Was it right to imprison Japanese families for no reason? In my own opinion, no, why should we deny others rights to others when they’ve done nothing?
The Wakatsuki family was one of the many families tore apart by the tragedies brought by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It all begin in Ocean Park, California, a fishing trip had gone bad within a matter of minutes. Papa and Woody had sailed off across the Santa Monica beach, then suddenly them boat seemed to sail back their way, and when back above shore, Papa and Woody shared the news that Pearl Harbor was under attack. When in panic, they knew that the bombing could bring unwanted trouble, so they burned everything that could resemble them being Japanese. Jeanne explains in her story, “That night papa burned the flag he had brought with him from Hiroshima thirty-five...

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